Europe
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

Mehemet, smoking his diamond-studded pipe, promised him “any portion of land open for sale in Syria” and agreed to “do everything that lies in my power” to support his project. ...
( Category: England September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Pete Scholey

WO1 REGIMENTAL SERGEANT-MAJOR REG TAYLER The spinning blades of the Sultan of Oman’s Air Force (SOAF) Huey kicked up storms of dust that swirled around the helicopter landing pad, the ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Emmet Scott

Boethius has been called by Lorenzo Valla the last of the Romans and the first of the scholastic philosophers. Nonetheless, there is nothing medieval in his thinking: He is entirely ...
( Category: Christianity September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen P. Halbrook

It is noteworthy that, on the face of the law, Jews were not named as automatically disqualified. Gypsies were the only ethnic group that did not qualify. It might be ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Jandy Nelson

THE INVISIBLE MUSEUM Noah Ages 131/2–14 The day after Brian leaves for boarding school, I sneak into Jude’s room while she’s in the shower and see a chat on the ...
( Category: Death & Dying September 19,2014 )
epub | | 2009-11-08 | Author:Follett, Ken [Ken, Follett,]

Salieron de la botica. Aunque la cámara que la albergaba lindaba con la biblioteca, para acceder a ésta tuvieron que atravesar el claustro de las monjas y el de los ...
( Category: Political September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gristwood, Sarah [Gristwood, Sarah]

IT IS OFTEN SAID that Elizabeth Woodville must have known the Princes were dead, or she would never have gone along with a plan to marry her daughter Elizabeth, with ...
( Category: Great Britain September 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gristwood, Sarah [Gristwood, Sarah]

John Talbot, in his Garter robes, presents a copy of the beautifully illustrated Shrewsbury Book to Marguerite of Anjou, shown hand in hand with her new husband, Henry VI. Daisies—Marguerite’s ...
( Category: Great Britain September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Reiss, Tom [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: France September 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Reiss, Tom [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: France September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Gessen, Masha [Gessen, Masha]

I WAS ALREADY GONE, having taken the job at U.S. News & World Report the previous summer. Before I started, I had flown to the Black Sea for a short ...
( Category: Russia September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jones, Lynne [Jones, Lynne]

By the mid-1990s, PTSD was regarded by Western professionals and public alike as a serious psychological disorder, and as the most likely response to a wide range of traumatic and ...
( Category: European September 18,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-09-16 | Author:David Leavitt

That weeping stand on a distant shore, My young days darkened for evermore – O pray for me! Pray for the homeless, outcast one, Pray for the life crushed out ...
( Category: Italy September 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Alexander, Amir [Alexander, Amir]

TWO DREAMS OF MODERNITY By the 1670s the war over the infinitely small had ended. With Angeli at long last silenced, and all the Jesuits’ rivals driven underground or melting ...
( Category: History September 16,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Robert Ferguson [Ferguson, Robert]

A man steps forward and twines the long fair hair around his hands. As the executioner Thorkel brings down the sword the youth jerks away and the sword slices off ...
( Category: Scandinavia September 16,2014 )